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Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) chief Mohammad Yasin Malik on Thursday termed the attack on inmates of sub-jail Baramulla as the “ugly face of state terrorism” in Jammu Kashmir.
“So-called rulers not only have turned whole Kashmir into a concentration camp but have made the lives of those incarcerated a hell,” Malik said in a statement issued this evening.
Terming this attack as another glaring example of “ugly brutalism of so-called rulers”, Malik said, “hundreds of prisoners are on hunger strike from last two days as authorities have virtually cut off even water on them.”
“PDP led ruling coalition has beaten all previous records of oppression and today attack on Baramulla jail inmates is reminding us those days when prisoners used to be tortured in jails and their cells used to be attacked by goons in uniform,” he added. “Brutality, oppression and Hitlerism have become the hall mark of PDP led coalition in Jammu Kashmir.”
The JKLF chief said, “in Baramulla jail, many have been critically injured and whole jail has been locked down to prevent any medical relief from teaching to them which has forced all the inmates in jail to go for a hunger strike.”
Appealing ICRC and other human rights organizations to immediately intervene in this serious matter and put their efforts to save the lives of trapped prisoners in Baramulla and other jails, Malik “cautioned” the rulers and their authorities that if anything untoward will happen to any prisoner “responsibility will solely lie on the shoulders of rulers”.
While condemning the implementation of black law PSA on a thirteen-year-old kid, JKLF chief said that so-far dozens of teen-agers have been booked under black law and sent to jails and “this is being done by those shameless rulers who on daily basis come on TV channels claim to be guardians of education and welfare of students and young boys and girls”.
The statement said while condemning the attacks of forces and police on Kashmiris in various villages and towns including Chitragam Shopian, Haigam Sopore, Rahmoo Pulwama and Aanchar Jenab Sahib Soura where from last two days “more than two hundred innocents” have been injured and many arrested by police and forces, Malik said, “pellet terrorism , continuing spree of arrests, use of black laws like PSA to put people in jails, vandalizing villages and towns, terrorizing and humiliating common people and now unleashing a phase of terror and torture on prisoners in jails has become a hallmark of so-called Indian democracy and its so-called democratic stooges in Jammu and Kashmir.”
